The Eliot Enigma. A Critical Examination of 'The Waste Land'
London, 'Printed and published by Arthur Davidson', 1956 (first edition).
Octavo, [viii], 48, [4] (blank) pages including the wrappers.
Saddle-stapled title-wrappers printed in black and red; staples slightly rusty; light crease to the bottom corner of the entire pamphlet; all edges uncut; a very good copy.
The subtitle is nothing if not accurate, and Mr Davidson is indeed critical to the end, as evidenced by the last sentence in the book. 'Scatter as he will his Classical and Oriental, his Italian, French and German scraps; his mythological, scriptural and historical bits and pieces; his philosophical, psychological and metaphysical doles and scantlings "Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks" in a petite maitre affectation of learning, he does but make one the more regret the crass misuse of his opportunities and acquirements which is only too apparent throughout the greater portion of that weed-grown, pleonastic expanse so justly entitled by its author "THE WASTE LAND"'.
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